Lino Dinetto - Portrait

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

From an analysis of this portrait, we can clearly see how, in Lino Dinetto's pictorial production, realist and expressionist dimensions often meet and coexist in the same work. Indeed, the conception of the work demonstrates a focus on a specific reality, with its values ​​and identity, with the artist's attention to an existential dimension of the artwork. Language, in fact, transcends sensory reality, and the synthetic image, constructed on the expressionistic qualities of color and pictorial application, becomes powerfully symbolic. The work, then, transcends the status of a portrait of a single individual to become the image of an entire existence.

Lino Dinetto was born in Este in 1927. He trained in Venice, but his career took a turning point when he moved to Uruguay. In Montevideo, he worked for five years on frescoes in the Cathedral of San José. It was here that he began his exploration of Cubism. Between 1955 and 1960, he taught at the San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts in Montevideo. In 1959, a solo exhibition was held at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, Brazil. Other important exhibitions were held in Treviso at the Palazzo dei Trecento in 2010, in Este in 2013, and in Vittorio Veneto in 2015.

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